Pancreatic Cancer

This is the key to preventing the spread of pancreatic cancer

In a recent international study published in Nature Communications, researchers found how aggressive pancreatic cancer cells change their environment to enable easy passage to other...

This study may help achieve an early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer

In a new study from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, researchers found that people at higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer...

Many people with pancreatic cancer are not prescribed cheap-but-essential drug

In a new study from the University of Birmingham, researchers found almost half of people diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer are not prescribed inexpensive...

This study shows a new way to kill pancreatic cancer from within

In a recent study at the University of California San Diego, researchers found that a new tumor-penetrating therapy may enhance the effects of chemotherapy,...

This drug can shrink tumors in pancreatic cancer patients with mutations

In a new study from the University of Pennsylvania, researchers found that more than two-thirds of pancreatic cancer patients harboring genetic mutations saw their...

Scientists develop new method to treat pancreatic cancer

In a new study from the University of Toronto, researchers found that about half of patient-derived pancreatic cancer cell lines are highly dependent or...

This new vaccine may protect against pancreatic cancer

In a new study from Stanford University, researchers advanced an old concept to develop a new strategy to train the immune system of mice...

Surgery is a viable treatment for pancreatic cancer

In a new study from the University of Arizona, researchers found that patients with stage II pancreatic cancer who are treated with chemotherapy followed...

This plant compound may help pancreatic cancer patients

In a new study from the Translational Genomics Research Institute, researchers found a compound derived from the thunder god vine is able to kill...

This study finds a big cause of common pancreatic cancer

The most common type of pancreatic cancer is pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. This is aggressive cancer that develops from secretory and tubular cells of the pancreas. There...